All this over a Lapel Pin?

So Barack Obama says that he won't wear an American flag lapel pin. This is the big flap of the week? Since when do you have to wear a pin to "prove" you're proud to live here? It's a PIN, a piece of jewelry.
The irony of the whole thing- all the "journalists" that were giving him crap over this - not one of them was wearing that pin on their lapel either. Those in glass houses should not throw stones.

Thank you Lewis Black